ItAF contributes to the "Bomb factory detection by Networks of Advanced Sensors" project to counter homemade IEDs
With the ItAF formally accepting into service the first two KC-767A tankers (that were delivered on Dec. 29, 2010 and Mar. 10, 2011), it went almost unnoticed the news that…
The Stealth Chinook involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid and why the Stealth Black Hawk crashed in Abbottabad
An interesting article published yesterday by the Associated Press and commented by Wired/Danger Room, provided some interesting details about the Osama Bin Laden raid. Indeed, anonymous government sources have told…
Italian PSYOPS mission over Libya
On May 17, 2011, an Italian Air Force C-130J, departed in the morning from Pisa airbase, dropped about 400.000 leaflets over Tripoli, Libya. As reported by ANSA news agency, leaflets…
Stealth Black Hawk updated rendering: 1978 document suggests a different shape for the modified UH-60
This is how the Stealth Black Hawk (dubbed also "Silent Hawk") could look like based on the analysis of all the information available to date. It is sensibly different from…
NATO Tiger Meet 2011: a real exercise with some interesting "hardware" rather than a gathering of friends
Taking place between May 9 and 20 at Cambrai airbase, in northern France, NATO Tiger Meet (NTM11) has been attended by about 60 planes and helicopters belonging to the Austrian,…
The white FEST C-32 to Andrews AFB using an FBI callsign on a "black" mission?
Once again a Foreign Emergency Support Team C-32 (B757) with registration 02-4452, belonging to the 227 SOF (Special Operations Flight) based at McGuire AFB, NJ, appeared on both FlightRadar24 and…
